Wareham police arrest three on gun charges

Tuesday

Jan 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM

WAREHAM — In separate incidents Friday and Sunday, police confiscated guns and ammunition and a total of three men were arrested and charged with various weapons-related charges, according to a Police Department news release.

WAREHAM — In separate incidents Friday and Sunday, police confiscated guns and ammunition and a total of three men were arrested and charged with various weapons-related charges, according to a Police Department news release.

According to the release, during a motor vehicle stop for speeding about 11 p.m. Friday on Routes 6 and 28 in the area of Hong Kong Island, Officers James White and Daniel Henderson noticed a handgun under the front seat of a vehicle driven by Donta Hood, 22, of Brockton, accompanied by passenger John Thomas, 44, of Wareham.

Police said they recovered a loaded .25-caliber handgun and arrested both men, charging them with possession of a firearm and possession of a loaded firearm. Thomas was also charged with violating the firearms laws with a prior violent or drug crime on his criminal record; he had been arrested in 1996 for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (pool cue), police said.

At about 3 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to a reported domestic assault incident between a father and his 20-year-old daughter on Lakeshore Drive in Wareham. Police said they arrested the father, John Rams Sr., 61, and further investigation by Officer Blaise Lalli and Detective Michael Smith led to a search warrant for the home and the discovery of an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and more than 100 rounds of assorted ammunition. The weapons were not involved in the domestic assault.

Rams was charged with assault and battery, possession of a firearm without an FID card, possession of a large-capacity firearm without an FID card, improper storage of a firearm, and possession of ammunition without an FID card.

Rams, Hood and Thomas were all arraigned Monday morning at Wareham District Court; additional court information was not available Monday night.